The Inspector Lynley Mysteries - Set 3
by Alrick Riley; Sebastian Graham Jones
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Actor: Catherine McDonough; Steven Webb; Sharon Small; Al Weaver; Terence Harvey; Daniel Ryan; Nathaniel Parker; Lesley Vickerage; Shaughan Seymour; Tim Frances; Jenny Agutter; Gabrielle Reidy; Susan Gilmore; Abbie Humphreys; Abby Ford; Lucy Brooks; Paul Ridley; Oliver Cotton; Lisa Palfrey; Paul CopleyDirector: Alrick Riley; Sebastian Graham Jones
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0
Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 360 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-08-02
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: WGBH BOSTON
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Movie Review: A Great Series Continues in Stride...
Summary: 5 Stars
"The Inspector Lynley Mysteries Set 3" picks up where Set 2 left off, with working class Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers demoted to Constable for assaulting a police superior, while her aristocratic partner Inspector Thomas Lynley struggles to balance work, marriage, and the pending birth of his first child. Lynley and Havers have grown into an instinctive and highly effective parternship. A subtle and unspoken emotional dependence on each other complicates their work together but carries them through the challenge of the four tough murder mysteries in this series.
"In Pursuit of the Proper Sinner" takes Lynley to the North of England to investigate the murder of the daughter of a retired vice cop. An excess of suspects gives Lynley an excuse to summon the deskbound Havers to assist. The murder victim turns out to have a hidden life and a number of enemies. Havers and Lynley will pursue parallel trails of clues to a surprising finish.
"A Traitor To Memory" focuses on the murder of the long-missing mother of a world class violinist suddenly struck with stage fright. In addition to the challenge of the case itself, Lynley suspects a possible coverup by his boss DSI Webberly and fears a disgruntled Havers' resignation from the police force. The two detectives will unravel a long and complicated mystery dating from a murder ten years earlier to find a surprising killer.
"A Cry For Justice" features a suicide that wasn't, a philanthropist with a bare knuckles approach to life, and a social club that isn't. Havers, newly returned to Sergeant rank, promptly runs off on a undercover role, leaving Lynley to work the public side of the case while worrying about her safety. The answers they seek are wound around a shocking conspiracy, an adopted child, and a shop girl with a secret.
"If Wishes were Horses" begins with the murder of a noted criminal profiler. There are plenty of suspects, between the profiler's criminal cases and a collection of ex-wives and girlfriends. Also implicated in the case is Helen, a former protege and now Lynley's very pregnant wife. As additional corpses pile up, Havers and Lynley race to find the killer or killers. In a stunning conclusion, tragedy will strike at the three people most dear to Lynley.
"Inspector Lynley Mysteries Set 3" is very highly recommeded to fans of the series. It features four intriguing murder mysteries that will keep the viewer guessing, while Lynley and Havers work through an unusual burden of personal challenges to solve the cases.
Summary of The Inspector Lynley Mysteries - Set 3
Lynley and Havers are about to face their ultimate tests. Nathaniel Parker (Far from the Madding Crowd) and Sharon Small (About A Boy) return as the New Scotland Yard team of Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley and Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers in four riveting murder mysteries that share some striking--and disturbing--parallels to their own lives. Having weathered the early storms of their partnership, the high-brow Inspector and the emphatically working-class Sergeant face new challenges--including questions about Havers' future and Lynley's loyalty. While solving murders remains the partners' focus, Lynley finds it hard to find the proper balance between work and marriage to his wife, Helen, while Havers struggles to bounce back from her demotion and to find her proper path in life. While Lynley and Havers unravel the heinous and suspenseful mysteries based on Elizabeth George's best-selling whodunits, they are also grappling with a mounting series of challenges and twists in their personal lives in a season that culminates with a true cliffhanger.In Pursuit of the Proper Sinner The daughter of a retired detective and her companion are murdered in the bucolic countryside of northern England, leading Lynley and Havers to countless suspects--and more victims.
A Traitor to Memory When Eugenie Martin falls victim to foul play, her complicated and tragic past provides Lynley and Havers with an obvious suspect--and a case that doesn't quite add up.
A Cry for Justice Morag McNicholl appeared to live a life of quiet respectability, but her death reveals a darker existence. As Lynley focuses on her mysterious past and the death toll mounts, Havers follows her hunches by going undercover.
If Wishes Were Horses There's no shortage of suspects in the murder of noted criminal profiler Dermot Finnegan. But when the case hits too close to home, Lynley takes extraordinary measures to bring the murderer to justice.
The Inspector Lynley Mysteries: Set 3 begins where set 2 left off, with Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers (Sharon Small) enduring a demotion following her controversial (though logical) handling of the climactic crisis at the end of "Deception on His Mind." But Havers is soon brought back into action as a sleuth in the first story here, "In Pursuit of the Proper Sinner," when her mentor, Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley (Nathaniel Parker), requests her participation in solving a double murder. One of the victims is the daughter of a retired Superintendent in Vice, who believes the killer is probably someone he once put away in jail. But the aristocratic Lynley and working-class Havers, an unusual team created in a series of novels by Elizabeth George, find the truth is more complicated than that as their investigation leads into a seamy world.
Long past their class differences and early conflicts--most of which were over differing perceptions and levels of experience with police business--Havers and Lynley increasingly cling to their relationship as events in their individual lives get more complex. This is especially true of Lynley, whose marriage suffers as he struggles to find a balance between work and home. Indeed, work only gets more complicated in "A Traitor to Memory," which concerns the murder of a woman who (a) disappeared from her family years before following the death of her daughter and (b) appears to have been on her way to see a man who claims never to have known her. "A Cry for Justice" sees Havers regaining esteem and ground in the homicide division after she determines that a woman thought to have committed suicide might have, in fact, been murdered. Finally, loyalties are tested in "If Wishes Were Horses," when a forensic psychologist--the former mentor of Lynley's wife--is killed by a car bomb. Havers and Lynley's investigation finds evidence that the latter's pregnant spouse might have been involved with the dead man at one time. As the chips fall, tragedy strikes Lynley's already unhappy marriage, followed by another terrible crisis that befalls the other important woman in his life, Havers. --Tom Keogh
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